The Goal of this project is to set a standard for how items about elections should look like, and to identify the best way of connecting them to other items. The main purpose is to deal with democratic public elections on national and local levels, but we hope that we also should be able to use the ideas here in other circumstances.

The aggregate number of delegates obtained by the candidate. Intended for use in pre-election processes such as selection of delegates to United States presidential nominating conventions. Intended to be used instead of electoral_vote1 for these cases.

Observe, that there are many ways to set up an election. Sometimes you vote for political parties, other times you vote for persons. Anything between that is also possible.

How the elected candidates are choosen also differ, sometimes even within one single election. One example of that is the EU-parliament, where each country has their own specific rules.

Some elections uses constituencies, sometimes there is one MP for every constituency, other times there are several elected candidate in one constituency.

Some elections makes use of electoral colleges.

In some cases there are more elected MPs than there are seats.

Many elections are repeated if the first round did not give a majority to one candidate.

Sometimes there are different kinds of cooperations between political parties.

There are independant candidates. How should we describe them?

Some candidates are not a member of the political party they represent, or they change membership after the election. How should that be described?

In historical records, the names of the candidates are no longer known. We might not even know the number of votes. How should that be described in a good way?

How should we describe indirect elections, like the election of the Prime minister of UK?

In modern local elections, there is maybe a lot of information about each election. Thousands of persons and political parties get only one or a few votes in each Swedish election. Is it worth the effort to list them, when all we know is their name? They can even be fictional, like Donald Duck (Q6550), who gets a number of votes every four years.